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From: Victor Sudakov <vas@vas.tomsk.su>
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Subject: Re: current ppp sources
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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:51:06 +0800 (TSD)
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In-Reply-To: <199708010306.EAA04989@awfulhak.org> from "Brian Somers" at "Aug 1, 97 04:06:27 am"
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Brian Somers wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I am using FreeBSD 2.1.6. I have just downloaded the ppp-970713.src.tar.gz
> > > > from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian.
> > > > 
> > > > Is it safe to just "make" and then "make install"? Am I not going to destroy
> > > > my current ppp (works perfectly, I just want some features which are not
> > > > available in 2.1.6).
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks a lot.
> > > 
> > > Make install will overwrite any existing ppp.  Just move
> > > /usr/sbin/ppp before the make
> > 
> > It does not seem to install any new man pages and example config files.
> > Where can I obtain them?
> 
> Hmm, the man pages should be installed !  For the config files, go to 
> http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html.

Sorry. The man pages are installed. It was my mistake. 

> 
> > There is one thing I would like to know. Is the problem with multiple phone
> > numbers fixed? I mean, does
> > 
> > 	set phone 123456:456789:789456
> > 
> > work now?
> 
> Always has.... if you've got spaces in the string, you need to quote 
> it.

In 2.1.6 it would just dial the whole succession of digits as one number,
paying no attention to colons. Of course, there are no spaces.

This problem seems to have been fixed in 970713.


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Victor Sudakov
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